Barbara Darrow November 18 1931 August 26 2018 was an American actress She was born in Hollywood California to George H Wittlinger a motion picture landscape artist and Alice Simpson Wittlinger a former silent screen actress She graduated from Hollywood High School Darrows work as a model led to her receiving offers of film contracts On August 31 1950 a judge approved her sevenyear contract with RKO Studios She made mostly Bmovie films in the 1950s including The Monster That Challenged The World and Queen of Outer Space She replaced Marla English opposite Spencer Tracy in The Mountain after English had an adverse reaction to a smallpox vaccine By 1955 she was one of only three actors under contract to RKO On television Darrow portrayed Nurse Forester in the NBC medical drama Doctors Hospital She also made several appearances in one or two episodes of popular television shows in the 1950s Some of these include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Bachelor Father The Bob Cummings Show M Squad and Peter Gunn